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  2. From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  4. Subject: Re: Third party request
  5. Message-ID: <lefty-020992134719@lefty.apple.com>
  6. Date: 2 Sep 92 20:47:15 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep02.023428.15936@watson.ibm.com>
  8. Sender: news@mumbo.apple.com (The News System)
  9. Organization: Our Lady of Heavy Artillery
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  12. In article <1992Sep02.023428.15936@watson.ibm.com>, margoli@watson.ibm.com
  13. (Larry Margolis) wrote:
  14. > 
  15. > In  <Btx4r8.D50.2@cs.cmu.edu>  garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
  16. > > Holtsinger claims that a law currently being enforced in
  17. > > Pennsylvania cannot be enforced.  Can someone explain his
  18. > > reasoning to me, please?
  19. > 
  20. > He apparently believes that a lie repeated sufficiently often acquires a
  21. > ring of truth.
  22.  
  23. This is, in fact, Lewis Carroll's First Law of Verisimilitude, originally
  24. stated in "The Hunting of the Snark":
  25.  
  26.                   Anything I tell you three times is true.
  27.  
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  29. Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
  30. C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.
  31.